Month: July 2018

Pearl Abyss is a Korea based game development studio established in 2009. Black Desert Online, a PC-massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG), is their main title in production published across the globe. On February 28, 2018, Pearl Abyss launched Black Desert Mobile on Microsoft Azure virtual machines utilizing 7,500 cores and 46 instances of Azure… Read more

Kevin Farlee Principal Program Manager, SQL Database We are pleased to announce the public preview of Approximate Count Distinct, the first of the Approximate Query Processing features. Approximate Query Processing is a new family of features which are designed to provide aggregations across very large data sets where responsiveness is more critical than absolute precision. … Read more

SQL Server 2017 and Azure SQL Database introduced native graph database capabilities used to model many-to-many relationships. The first implementation of SQL Graph introduced support for edges to represent relationships, nodes to represent entities and a new MATCH predicate to support graph pattern matching and traversal. We will be further expanding the graph database capabilities… Read more

Azure SQL Managed Instance is a fully managed PaaS SQL Server Database Engine hosted in Azure cloud that is placed in Azure Virtual network, and you need to ensure that your network is properly configured. In this post your will see a PowerShell script that can validate the Azure network that you prepared for the… Read more

Congratulations to our June top 10 contributors! Alberto Morillo and Visakh Murukesan maintain their top positions. This Leaderboard initiative was started in October 2016 to recognize the top Database Systems contributors on MSDN forums. The following continues to be the points hierarchy (in decreasing order of points):… Read more

Azure SQL Managed Instance is fully managed SQL Server instance hosted in Azure cloud. You would need to prepare Azure environment where SQL Managed Instance will be hosted before you create your Managed Instances. In this post you will see how to deploy configured Azure environment using ARM template…. Read more